18 December 2016

Danish style cocoa and rum balls

I will be off to Finland tomorrow to
spend Christmas with my family. I still have a few posts prepared for
next week, so there will be more posts, but then I will probably be
quiet for a few days and just relax at home. What are your Christmas
plans this year?

Now to this sweet recipe. Every time I
go to Denmark or Sweden I just have to have these cocoa and rum
balls. They are so tasty and incredibly filling, as they are so
dense. It's good that you don't manage to eat too many of them, as
they are full of butter and sugar.

I thought that these balls would be a
nice idea for Christmas as well. There's no baking involved, it's all
very simple to make. I adapted my version from Kim's recipe for Cocoa oat ballsHavregrynskugler at the Nordic Food &
Living blog.

Danish style cocoa and rum balls

Adapted from
Nordic Food & Living blog's recipe

Ingredients

For the dough:

280 g oat flakes

225 g soft butter

200 g sugar

6 tbsp cocoa powder

2 tsp almond extract

4 tbsp coconut oil

4 tbsp rum

For decorating:

Desiccated coconut

Hazelnut crunch

Cocoa powder

Method

Just mix all ingredients into an even
dough, and let it rest in the fridge for about 30 minutes.

Then shape balls from the dough.

Roll the balls in desiccated coconut,
hazelnut crunch and cocoa powder, or in anything else that you can
think.

have a very merry christmas in finland - I love these balls though they are quite different from our version of rumballs I grew up with (we never called them rumballs or put rum in them - though why we called them grubs I never knew) Christmas seems pretty crazy here so I think I will enjoy some relaxing when christmas day rolls around.

Who is The VegHog?

A vegetarian hobby cook and urban gardener born in Finland, currently living in Denmark. I try to develop my cooking skills by making a wide variety of veggie dishes, some of them traditional and some new creations. My favourites include veggie burgers, squashes, organic and local produce, cider, spelt, rye, pizzas, pasta dishes, risottos and sea-buckthorn.
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